I thought I’d devote a section to giving a little insight into this website and how I designed it. First off, as many of you may have noticed by now, this is a WordPress blog. What you may not know, is that it’s hosted on a RaspberryPi 5 in my apartment. But, I only did that for cost savings. Here’s the details:
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Host is a RaspberryPi 5 running Ubuntu
Cheap and fast! What could be better?
- Static assets are kept in S3
Cheap to host, but cloudfront is cheaper for the traffic
- S3 content is cached by Cloudfront very cheaply and efficiently
Nice and fast and free for any small site
- Cloudflare is put in front of it all, providing some security for this site
Free version, but it does a lot!
- Cloudflare’s turnstile is in place to keep my forms spam-free!
- HTTP3 is supported
Latest and greatest QUIC-based protocol
- IPv6 works as well!
Because, it should work everywhere already!
- DNS for this site is set up with Route53 as the registrar and Cloudflare’s nameservers, and DNSSEC is enabled
- Memcached caching for All The Things
Fast caching for a fast site
- More to come!
